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7/21/2025, 7:44:19 AM
>>11883546
>>just photocopy that as well
First of all, that would not work if you downloaded the game from a BBS or similar, you would not ever have the manual or whatever it was physically there TO photocopy.
Second some manuals were absolutely massive, it would cost more to photocopy than just buying the game.
Third publishers weren't stupid, they knew stuff could be photocopied, that's why they started relying on physical objects that were some kind of toy or gadget needed to pass the copy protection. Or if they wanted to be cheap and just include a sheet of paper, use colored paper and printing that would be impossible for the black-and-white photocopiers at the time to reproduce, they would just end up printing a pure black sheet. Picrel was one such game that I had (though it was possible to carefully bleach this specific paper to turn it from a very dark crimson red to a light pink, making it easy to photocopy after that)
>>11883575
I highly doubt that was copy protection, that was probably just Kojima being Kojima, he loves his meta-humor and 4th wall breaks. It's a single 5 digit number that never changes, would be a pretty shitty form of copy protection, especially for a system that already has copy protection built in and this being the age where it would be possible to look that up on the internet.
>>just photocopy that as well
First of all, that would not work if you downloaded the game from a BBS or similar, you would not ever have the manual or whatever it was physically there TO photocopy.
Second some manuals were absolutely massive, it would cost more to photocopy than just buying the game.
Third publishers weren't stupid, they knew stuff could be photocopied, that's why they started relying on physical objects that were some kind of toy or gadget needed to pass the copy protection. Or if they wanted to be cheap and just include a sheet of paper, use colored paper and printing that would be impossible for the black-and-white photocopiers at the time to reproduce, they would just end up printing a pure black sheet. Picrel was one such game that I had (though it was possible to carefully bleach this specific paper to turn it from a very dark crimson red to a light pink, making it easy to photocopy after that)
>>11883575
I highly doubt that was copy protection, that was probably just Kojima being Kojima, he loves his meta-humor and 4th wall breaks. It's a single 5 digit number that never changes, would be a pretty shitty form of copy protection, especially for a system that already has copy protection built in and this being the age where it would be possible to look that up on the internet.
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